"Think so?"
"Why, look! Baker, come here. What are those men doing over there?"
Remember Baker shaded his eyes with his hand and looked for several minutes before speaking.
"'Pears like as though they were trying to ambush by the side of the road and stop us."
"Just what I thought. Ask Sunderland to come here."
Peleg Sunderland was a good scout. He was a hunter from Wayback, and could find the trail of a deer or a bear quicker than any man in the Green Mountains.
"Colonel, we are in for it. Them fellows are waiting for us."
"Dismount!"
The order was obeyed, though many of the men wondered what could be the reason.
"We will have lunch——"